Connectionists: Faculty positions in Data Science at NYU - Courant Institute

[Yann LeCun]

Faculty Positions at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of
New York University

The Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University
invites applications for tenured or tenure-track faculty in the
Department of Computer Science and in the Department of Mathematics. Two
appointments at the Assistant Professor level will be considered for
positions beginning in September 2013. We will also consider outstanding
candidates at the senior level.

Candidates will be affiliated with the newly formed Center for Data
Science, a multidisciplinary initiative hosted at the Courant Institute
which brings together faculty, scientists, and students engaged in
research on the automatic extraction of knowledge from data. The CDS
will offer graduate degrees in Data Science starting in September 2013.

We seek to fill one position with a primary affiliation in Computer
Science in the area of machine learning, computational statistics, and AI.

We seek to fill another position with a primary affiliation in
Mathematics in areas of the mathematical sciences connected with data
science, particularly statistics.

We will also consider applications for joint positions between the
Courant Institute and NYU departments engaged in research on data
science, including but not limited to biology, business, economics,
medical informatics, neuroscience, physics, and the social sciences.

Faculty members are expected to be outstanding scholars and to
participate in teaching at all levels from undergraduate to doctoral.
New appointees will be offered competitive salaries and startup
packages, with affordable housing within a short walking distance of the
department. New York University is located in Greenwich Village, one of
the most attractive residential areas of Manhattan.

The Computer Science Department has 34 regular faculty members and
several clinical, research, adjunct, and visiting faculty members. The
department's current research interests include algorithms, cryptography
and theory; computational biology; distributed computing and networking;
graphics, vision and multimedia; machine learning; natural language
processing; scientific computing; and verification and programming
languages.

The Mathematics Department has 57 regular faculty members and occupies a
leading position in analysis and applied mathematics. A special feature
of the department is its highly interdisciplinary character. The
department’s current research interests include partial differential
equations, differential geometry, dynamical systems, probability and
stochastic processes, statistics, scientific computation, mathematical
physics, and fluid dynamics.

Collaborative research with industry is facilitated by geographic
proximity to numerous industry R&D centers including AT&T Labs, Bell
Labs, Exxon, Facebook, Google, IBM, Microsoft, NEC, Siemens, SRI, Yahoo,
the financial and pharmaceutical industries, and a large number of
startup companies.

Candidates for the Computer Science positions should apply at
https://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/facapp/register
Candidates for the Mathematics positions should apply at
http://www.mathjobs.org

To guarantee full consideration, applications should be submitted no
later than January 15, 2012; however, this is not a hard deadline, as
all candidates will be considered to the full extent feasible, until all
positions are filled. New York University is an equal
opportunity/affirmative action employer.


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Yann LeCun,   Silver Professor of Computer Science and Neural Science
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences; Center for Neural Science
New York University, 719 Broadway, Room 1220, New York, NY 10003, USA
http://yann.lecun.com  email: yann[at]cs.nyu.edu  tel:+1(212)998-3283